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The story so far ...

David graduated from the University of Queensland in 1992 with a degree in Physiotherapy. Since that time he has dedicated himself to integrating medicine, nutrition, psychology and various forms of manual therapy into his mode of practice.

Despite a decade of working with elite and high-profile sporting teams and athletes in the world of Rugby Union, AFL, Swimming, Softball, Basketball and Hockey, David's challenge lay in the realm of combining different treatment techniques to affect problems that involved concurrent body systems. An interest in chronic, hard to fix conditions that have multiple layers was the inspiration.

On a personal level, striving to be authentic is a guiding factor for direction in life. This means having a distinctive voice and living through doing rather than just thinking. It means finding your truth and the truth of all things. It means accepting change and being a capacitor for change. It means indulging your curiosity and using your imagination. It means many things! It means seeking, always seeking …

Perhaps you can imagine how physiotherapy provides an outlet for this philosophy and why this philosophy suits a career like physiotherapy and helping people with complicated health histories?!

And then, at the end of the day, when work is all done and dusted, if he had a dinner party with no restrictions on who he could invite, the starting grid would include: Springsteen for some guitar tips and to thank him for some iconic rock and roll moments; Kelly Slater to pass on some surfing know-how; Grace Kelly to add some class; Ayn Rand to discuss books and philosophy; and maybe those students who used to visit the William Frisbee Pie Company for a bite and have fun throwing the pie dish around afterwards …